Philip Henry STOLL

(1874-1958)

STOLL, Philip Henry, a
Representative from South Carolina; born in Little Rock, Marion
(now Dillon) County, S.C., November 5, 1874; attended the public
schools; was graduated from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in
1897; teacher in the public schools 1897-1901; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Kingstree,
Williamsburg County, S.C.; member of the State house of
representatives 1905-1906; solicitor of the third judicial circuit
from 1908 to 1917, when he resigned; chairman of the Democratic
county committee and member of the Democratic State committee
1908-1918; commissioned as a major in the Judge Advocate
General’s Department of the United States Army in 1917;
promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1918 and served
throughout the First World War; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J.
Willard Ragsdale; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and
served from October 7, 1919, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1922; resumed the practice of law;
again a member, State house of representatives, 1929-1931; elected
as a judge of the third judicial circuit of South Carolina in 1931
and served until December 6, 1946, when he retired; died in
Columbia, S.C., October 29, 1958; interment in Williamsburg
Presbyterian Cemetery, Kingstree, S.C.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present